Lightning discharges help clean the air of some greenhouse gases
We only found this out by accident.
Tag: atmosphere
Australia’s wildfires created a ‘record-breaking’ smoke plume in the upper atmosphere
Can’t have smoke without fire.
Pluto’s beating icy heart makes and breaks atmospheric winds
Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was “inevitable,” and maybe on other planets, too
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
Curiosity rover stumbles upon mystery of oxygen on Mars
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
New capture technology scrubs atmospheric CO2 on the cheap
Saving money and saving the environment are my two favorite things.
Antarctic ozone hole at its smallest recorded size ever
Who said size doesn't matter?
Key variable used to study Mars’ ancient atmosphere varies during the day
This used to mess up our calculations, but now we understand why.
Spitzer confirms: no atmosphere on nearby exoplanet
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
The Earth’s atmosphere extends twice as far as the Moon, technically
You should probably try really hard to hold your breath around there, though.
Bombs dropped during the Second World War were felt to the edge of space
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
All this time, outer space was secretly much closer than we thought
Tricksy, tricksy space.
NASA releases atmospheric simulation of this year’s hurricane season
Cool and pretty at the same time!? NASA gets the best things!
Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet
Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.
Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.